Prepare starter booms, Boom identification and orientation, Join starter booms sections with tees – Great Plains YP Fertilizer System User Manual
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Great Plains Mfg., Inc.
Installation Instructions
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02/29/2008
407-197M
Prepare Starter Booms
Refer to Figure 38
114. Select the four boom assemblies
have a specific assembly part number.
115. If the booms do not have end caps
, also select:
Boom Identification and Orientation
• The low rate starter boom sections have nozzles
with
800-367C AD PUSH 1/4TUBEX1/4MNPT
without
830-071C AD 1/4MNPT X 3/8HB POLYPROP
• Each wing has two boom sections. The open
thread ends are adjacent, and are to be mated by
a tee in a later step.
• The end of the boom with the four closely-spaced
nozzles
is the outside end (wing tip or planter
center). The ends with the sparsely-spaced noz-
zles
are where the tee connection will be made.
• The cap
is on the outside end.
• The nozzles face to planter rear. If the sections
are not pre-assembled this way, adjust the noz-
zles.
116. Lay the four booms, oriented as above along the
tops of the wing seed tube supports.
Join Starter Booms Sections with Tees
117. Select:
Refer to Figure 39
118. Apply thread sealant, and join each pair of boom
sections with a tee
.
119. Apply thread sealant, and screw in the elbow
.
Set its final orientation facing forward.
Qty
Call
Part
Description
4
Qty
Call
Part
Description
2
2
830-123C EL 3/4MNPT X 3/4HB POLYPROP
Figure 38
High Rate Boom Assembly
99999
1
2
3
1
Figure 39
Starter Boom Tee
27113